Early Career Doctoral Student Academic Careers Workshop – Chicago IL

Early Career Doctoral Students Academic Careers Workshop (EC-ACW) targets 2nd and 3rd year doctoral students with the goal of exposing the students to academic careers.

The goal of the workshop is to cover the following topics:

• Academic career ladder
• Importance of networking and collaborations
• Work-life balance
• What is expected of faculty candidates
• The art of technical storytelling
• Building one’s teaching portfolio

The workshop targets participants from the following communities in doctoral programs in computing at U.S. institutions: African Americans/Blacks, Native Americans/Indigenous People, Hispanics/Latinx, and People with Disabilities.

EC-ACW is organized by CMD-IT, in collaboration with AccessComputing and CAHSI, and is funded by an NSF grant.

Application Deadline: May 15

Notifications Distributed: May 29

Workshop Dates: July 10-12 in Chicago, IL